Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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Poets these days, like artists and composers, have won for themselves almost unlimited freedom. You can pass yourself off as a painter without being able to draw, as a composer without being conscious of key relationships, and as a poet without making yourself familiar with traditional verse forms.
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As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself.
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My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
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I won't do a role which children in my family cannot look up to.
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I am slightly obsessed with beauty products.
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My fans are always extremely loyal.
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Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
